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very much more deeply smoky brown lower parts, dorsal stripe, 

 and sides of head and neck. 



Adults of Dryohates villosus liylobatus examined are all very deeply 

 colored, excepting one male from Ajusco, State of Mexico, which is 

 indistinguishable in color from Dryohates villosus intermedins, but its 

 large size indicates that it is properly referable to D. v. liylobatus 

 as an example of extreme individual variation. 



Nine specimens examined, from the localities given below: 



Mexico. — Northern slope of Volcan de Toluca; Ajusco; City of 

 Mexico. 



Morelos. — Huitzilac. 



DRYOBATES VILLOSUS JARDINII (Malherbe). 



Picas (Leuconotipicus) jardinii Malherbe, Rev. Zool., Oct., 1845, p. 374. 



Chars, subsp. — Like Dryohates villosus liylobatus in color, but de- 

 cidedly smaller. 



Measurements. — Male: 1 Wing, 114-118 (average, 116.2) mm.; tail, 

 67-74 (69.7); exposed culmen, 24-27 (25.6); tarsus, 20-21.5 (20.7); 

 middle toe, 13.5-14 (13.9). 



Female: 2 Wing, 110; tail, 62; exposed culmen, 23.5; tarsus, 19; 

 middle toe, 13. 



Type-locality. — "Mexico," i. e., central Vera Cruz. 



Geographical distribution. — Canadian and Transition Zones in the 

 mountains of eastern Mexico in the States of Vera Cruz, Puebla, and 

 Oaxaca: north to Las Vigas, central Vera Cruz; west to Mount Ori- 

 zaba, eastern Puebla; and south to the city of Oaxaca, central 

 Oaxaca. 



A single adult male from Mount Orizaba, Puebla, is very much 

 paler below than other examples, and is practically identical in color 

 with Dryohates villosus intermedius, yet it is much too small for that 

 race, and is doubtless merely another instance of the great range of 

 individual variation to which the dark races of Dryohates villosus are 

 subject. The writer has seen no specimens from the State of Oax- 

 aca, but records of the species from Tonaguia, central northern 

 Oaxaca, 3 and the city of Oaxaca, 4 belong probably under the present 

 subspecies. 



The type of Malherbe's Picus jardinii 5 was an immature bird, as 

 its abnormally small measurements clearly indicate, and came from 

 "Mexico." When this author subsequently more fully described the 

 form, 6 he had other specimens whose measurements proclaim them 



1 Four specimens, from the Mexican State of Vera Cruz. 



2 One specimen, from the same State. 



s Ilargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 18, 1890, p. 238. 

 « Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, p. 388. 

 6 Rev. Zool., 1845, p. 374. 

 <= Mon. Picidees, vol. 1, 1861, p. 103, pi. 25, figs. 4, 5. 



